The twenty-five years of philosophy : a systematic reconstruction / Eckart Forster ; translated by Brady Bowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Förster, Eckart.

Standardized Title:

25 Jahre der Philosophie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Idealism, German.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Other Title:

25 years of philosophy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Förster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time from Kant's "beginning" to Hegel's "end." He concludes that, in an unexpected yet significant sense, both Kant and Hegel were indeed right.The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy follows the unfolding of a key idea during this exceptionally productive period: the Kantian idea that philosophy can be scientific and, consequently, can be completed. Förster's study combines historical research with philosophical insight and leads him to propose a new thesis. The development of Kant's transcendental philosophy in his three Critiques, Förster claims, resulted in a fundamental distinction between "intellectual intuition" and "intuitive understanding." Overlooked until now, this distinction yields two takes on how to pursue philosophy as science after Kant. One line of thought culminates in Fichte's theory of freedom (Wissenschaftslehre), while the other-and here Förster brings Goethe's significance to the fore-results in Goethe's transformation of the Kantian idea of an intuitive understanding in light of Spinoza's third kind of knowledge. Both strands are brought together in Hegel and propel his split from Schelling. Förster's work makes an original contribution to our understanding of the classical era of German philosophy-an expanding interest within the Anglophone philosophical community.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Prologue: A Beginning of Philosophy

PART I. "Kant has given the results..."

1. Kant's "Revolution of the Mode of Thought"

2. Critique and Morals

3. From A to B

4. How to Become a Spinozist

5. From One Make Three

6. The "Critical Enterprise": Complete?

7. The "Critical Enterprise": Incomplete

PART II. "...the premises are still missing"

8. Fichte's "Complete Revolution of the Mode of Thought"

9. Morals and Critique

10. Spiritus sive natura?

11. The Methodology of the Intuitive Understanding

12. Does Philosophy Have a History?

13. Hegel's "Voyages of Discovery": Incomplete

14. Hegel's "Voyages of Discovery": Complete

Epilogue: An End of Philosophy

Translator's Note

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674064980

0674064984

9780674068582

0674068580

OCLC:

794003571